• Tinidril
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    5 months ago

    Tucker isn’t interviewing the people who live there, he’s interviewing the very concrete embodiment of the abstract concept of the Russian government that is absolutely our enemy. Tucker is himself a concrete representative of our common enemy, capital.

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      5 months ago

      Our enemy

      Don’t try to tell me who my enemy is nerd, I know who my enemy is. It’s the people who put these bizzare nationalist ideas in your head. You’re talking like a medieval serf would talk about a rival kingdom, when it’s our own aristocracy that’s menacing the entire world.

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        LOL, it’s not nationalism to acknowledge that countries are a thing, or to acknowledge that there are indeed differences between them. I have no illusions that the US government is my friend, but I do see that I’m better off here than under Putin. There is a reason that a third of Russian males are alcoholics, and it’s not the quality of the vodka.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          are you in any danger of becoming Russian and owing anything to Putin? No, you’re not. Disentangle the nationalism from your brain. Russia isn’t a threat to you and it’s not your enemy, it’s a threat to your country’s shareholders.

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            So, you acknowledge that Putin is threatening the US. Well, that’s progress of a sort. (I can play your stupid games too.)

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              Oh come on. Death to America. I said Russia threatens shareholders. Properly identify your enemy and what side you’re on. The US isn’t your side even if you live in it. The US is a conglomeration of business interests and military expenditures, it deserves to be threatened.

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                5 months ago

                It does deserve to be threatened, but not by criminal regimes that share every negative aspect and add so many more. Putin’s Russia doesn’t threaten to overthrow the American oligarchy and put Americans in control, it threatens to strengthen that oligarchy and bend it to Putin’s will. That is absolutely a threat to America, in every possible sense.

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                    So, it’s crazy to assume that one of the worlds largest influence operations might exert some influence. Yeah, that’s the sensible take. Putin isn’t a comic villain, he’s just a modern crime boss with access to a state level intelligence agency.

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            5 months ago

            I wouldn’t know. I couldn’t even tell you the last time this “yank” are fast food.